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I'm shortly going to end up with the following Macs in one large house
1.42GHz Mac Mini on OS 10.3.9
700 MHz EMac on OS 10,2,x
1,25 GHz Mac tower on 10.4.8
450 MHz AGP Mac tower on 10.4.10
New MacBook
New MacBook Pro
And I'm hoping to hook all of these up to an existing wireless router to access Sympatico.
The MacMini has built in wireless, so that should be OK; the two new MacBooks will include whatever wireess comes with them standard,
But the EMac, AGP Mac and 1.25 GHz Mac have no wireless capability.
The original Airport card which will fit at least into the AGP and 1.25GHz Mac is about $60 pus shipping on ebay - not sure if the EMac will even take that.
As an alternative I was looking at a USB adapter like this one for all three units that don't have wireless capability
http://cgi.ebay.ca/USB-Wireless-ada...ryZ80060QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Is anyone using one of these? Any comments pro or con? The price is reasonable but how well do these work.
The Macs will be in a three story house with 10 ft ceilings; the router would be on the second floor - I gess the max, distance from router to furthest Mac would be 30 feet.
Other choice is to run ethernet cables all over the house.
1.42GHz Mac Mini on OS 10.3.9
700 MHz EMac on OS 10,2,x
1,25 GHz Mac tower on 10.4.8
450 MHz AGP Mac tower on 10.4.10
New MacBook
New MacBook Pro
And I'm hoping to hook all of these up to an existing wireless router to access Sympatico.
The MacMini has built in wireless, so that should be OK; the two new MacBooks will include whatever wireess comes with them standard,
But the EMac, AGP Mac and 1.25 GHz Mac have no wireless capability.
The original Airport card which will fit at least into the AGP and 1.25GHz Mac is about $60 pus shipping on ebay - not sure if the EMac will even take that.
As an alternative I was looking at a USB adapter like this one for all three units that don't have wireless capability
http://cgi.ebay.ca/USB-Wireless-ada...ryZ80060QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Is anyone using one of these? Any comments pro or con? The price is reasonable but how well do these work.
The Macs will be in a three story house with 10 ft ceilings; the router would be on the second floor - I gess the max, distance from router to furthest Mac would be 30 feet.
Other choice is to run ethernet cables all over the house.